Obit of Lowder, Alta Aleen O'Neal - Texas County, Oklahoma

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Alta Aleen O'Neal Lowder

SPEARMAN - Alta Aleen O'Neal Lowder, 87, died Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First United Methodist Church with 
the Rev. Ken Cole, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Goodwell 
Cemetery in Goodwell, Okla., by Henson-Novak Funeral Directors of Guymon, 
Okla.

Mrs. Lowder was the daughter of May (Traylor) and T.J. O'Neal. She was 
born June 6, 1916, in Bertrand, Cimarron County, Okla. She graduated from 
Felt High School in 1933 and from Panhandle Agricultural and Mechanical 
College in Goodwell in 1939. While in college, she was active in athletics 
and the college choir and drama departments.

She was united in marriage to Orville Lowder on Feb. 24, 1939, in Boise 
City, Okla. A longtime educator, Mrs. Lowder taught elementary school for 
more than 44 years, teaching in Colorado and the panhandles of Oklahoma 
and Texas. She taught for several years in Dumas following World War II. 
With an obvious schoolteacher shortage, Mrs. Lowder taught second grade 
with 44 morning students and 44 afternoon students. She was a member of 
Delta Kappa Gamma and Texas State Teachers Association. She was also a 
member of the 20th Century Study Club and First United Methodist Church of 
Spearman.

She was preceded in death by her husband on Oct. 18, 1943; five sisters, 
Louie Fentress O'Neal, Erma Ikard, Jeffie May Hoy, Arilla Ingham and Imeta 
Dent; and three brothers, Francis O'Neal, Curtis O'Neal and Kendall 
O'Neal.

Survivors include two daughters, Marilynn Hart and husband, Jon, of Gruver 
and Sally Thomas and husband, Toby, of Spearman; a son, Byron Kendall 
Lowder of Hawley; six grandchildren, Quentin Hart and wife, Loree, of 
Cheyenne, Wyo., Suzanne Frazier and husband, Brian, of Cimarron, N.M., 
Joni Hart of Dallas, Jason Sutterfield of College Station, and Jeremy 
Sutterfield and wife, Candice and Gretchen Yanez and husband, Jesus, all 
of San Antonio; and six great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to Hansford Hospice, Spearman United 
Methodist Church or Imeta Dent Scholarship at OPSU and may be sent to the 
funeral home, P.O. Box 1306, Guymon, OK 73942.

Amarillo Globe-News, Dec. 12, 2003
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